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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization...

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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

There is no better designer than nature.

I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and go...

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgott...

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Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...

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...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be s...

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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth ...

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Anton ChekhovThree Sisters: A Translation Of The Play By Anton Chekhov

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every p...

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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched...

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Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed ...

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Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, peo...

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Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed compan...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as ...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many ...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Sam...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectl...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the product...

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I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

You're not gay, are you?"Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

I've got plenty.” Isabelle smiled, kicking her feet up so that her anklets jingled like Christmas be...

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You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something ...

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Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely...

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Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

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Cassandra ClareThe Fall of the Hotel Dumort

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy th...

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Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all ...

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It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up o...

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It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon.… There is much...

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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid fo...

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Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sad...

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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

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Christian DiorThe Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman

I'm a risk taker and i've always been like that that, especially when it comes to fashion

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Fashion changes, but style endures.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion ...

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To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the sho...

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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to be...

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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too....

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I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels...

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...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on...

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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...

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It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic...

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Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in th...

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It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my ...

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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Money never goes out of fashion.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the...

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When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a fr...

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Ellen DeGeneresThe Funny Thing Is...

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation w...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s c...

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana T...

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It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.

Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.

Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots...

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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

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George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.